EP1903602A3 - Transistor de mémoire non-volatile - Google Patents

Transistor de mémoire non-volatile Download PDF

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EP1903602A3
EP1903602A3 EP07121233A EP07121233A EP1903602A3 EP 1903602 A3 EP1903602 A3 EP 1903602A3 EP 07121233 A EP07121233 A EP 07121233A EP 07121233 A EP07121233 A EP 07121233A EP 1903602 A3 EP1903602 A3 EP 1903602A3
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storage medium
insulating barrier
charge storage
charge
supply region
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Bogdan Govoreanu
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Interuniversitair Microelektronica Centrum vzw IMEC
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    • H01L29/00—Semiconductor devices adapted for rectifying, amplifying, oscillating or switching, or capacitors or resistors with at least one potential-jump barrier or surface barrier, e.g. PN junction depletion layer or carrier concentration layer; Details of semiconductor bodies or of electrodes thereof  ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/66—Types of semiconductor device ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/68—Types of semiconductor device ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor controllable by only the electric current supplied, or only the electric potential applied, to an electrode which does not carry the current to be rectified, amplified or switched
    • H01L29/76—Unipolar devices, e.g. field effect transistors
    • H01L29/772—Field effect transistors
    • H01L29/78—Field effect transistors with field effect produced by an insulated gate
    • H01L29/792—Field effect transistors with field effect produced by an insulated gate with charge trapping gate insulator, e.g. MNOS-memory transistors
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B82—NANOTECHNOLOGY
    • B82Y—SPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MEASUREMENT OR ANALYSIS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF NANOSTRUCTURES
    • B82Y10/00—Nanotechnology for information processing, storage or transmission, e.g. quantum computing or single electron logic
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    • H01L29/40—Electrodes ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/401—Multistep manufacturing processes
    • H01L29/4011—Multistep manufacturing processes for data storage electrodes
    • H01L29/40114—Multistep manufacturing processes for data storage electrodes the electrodes comprising a conductor-insulator-conductor-insulator-semiconductor structure
    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H01L29/40—Electrodes ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/401—Multistep manufacturing processes
    • H01L29/4011—Multistep manufacturing processes for data storage electrodes
    • H01L29/40117—Multistep manufacturing processes for data storage electrodes the electrodes comprising a charge-trapping insulator
    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H01L29/00—Semiconductor devices adapted for rectifying, amplifying, oscillating or switching, or capacitors or resistors with at least one potential-jump barrier or surface barrier, e.g. PN junction depletion layer or carrier concentration layer; Details of semiconductor bodies or of electrodes thereof  ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/40—Electrodes ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/41—Electrodes ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor characterised by their shape, relative sizes or dispositions
    • H01L29/423—Electrodes ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor characterised by their shape, relative sizes or dispositions not carrying the current to be rectified, amplified or switched
    • H01L29/42312—Gate electrodes for field effect devices
    • H01L29/42316—Gate electrodes for field effect devices for field-effect transistors
    • H01L29/4232—Gate electrodes for field effect devices for field-effect transistors with insulated gate
    • H01L29/42324—Gate electrodes for transistors with a floating gate
    • H01L29/42332—Gate electrodes for transistors with a floating gate with the floating gate formed by two or more non connected parts, e.g. multi-particles flating gate
    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H01L29/00—Semiconductor devices adapted for rectifying, amplifying, oscillating or switching, or capacitors or resistors with at least one potential-jump barrier or surface barrier, e.g. PN junction depletion layer or carrier concentration layer; Details of semiconductor bodies or of electrodes thereof  ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/66—Types of semiconductor device ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/68—Types of semiconductor device ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor controllable by only the electric current supplied, or only the electric potential applied, to an electrode which does not carry the current to be rectified, amplified or switched
    • H01L29/76—Unipolar devices, e.g. field effect transistors
    • H01L29/772—Field effect transistors
    • H01L29/78—Field effect transistors with field effect produced by an insulated gate
    • H01L29/788—Field effect transistors with field effect produced by an insulated gate with floating gate
    • H01L29/7881—Programmable transistors with only two possible levels of programmation
    • H01L29/7883—Programmable transistors with only two possible levels of programmation charging by tunnelling of carriers, e.g. Fowler-Nordheim tunnelling
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
    • G11C—STATIC STORES
    • G11C16/00—Erasable programmable read-only memories
    • G11C16/02—Erasable programmable read-only memories electrically programmable
    • G11C16/04—Erasable programmable read-only memories electrically programmable using variable threshold transistors, e.g. FAMOS
    • G11C16/0408—Erasable programmable read-only memories electrically programmable using variable threshold transistors, e.g. FAMOS comprising cells containing floating gate transistors
    • G11C16/0416—Erasable programmable read-only memories electrically programmable using variable threshold transistors, e.g. FAMOS comprising cells containing floating gate transistors comprising cells containing a single floating gate transistor and no select transistor, e.g. UV EPROM
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
    • G11C—STATIC STORES
    • G11C2216/00—Indexing scheme relating to G11C16/00 and subgroups, for features not directly covered by these groups
    • G11C2216/02—Structural aspects of erasable programmable read-only memories
    • G11C2216/06—Floating gate cells in which the floating gate consists of multiple isolated silicon islands, e.g. nanocrystals
EP07121233A 2005-07-28 2005-12-14 Transistor de mémoire non-volatile Withdrawn EP1903602A3 (fr)

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US70363905P 2005-07-28 2005-07-28
EP05112170A EP1748472A1 (fr) 2005-07-28 2005-12-14 Transistor de mémoire non-volatile

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EP2284870B1 (fr) 2009-08-12 2012-02-22 Imec Procédé de formation de cellule de mémoire non volatile à grille flottante
EP2806452B1 (fr) 2013-05-24 2018-12-26 IMEC vzw Dispositifs de semi-conducteur à mémoire non volatile et leur procédé de fabrication

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US6617639B1 (en) * 2002-06-21 2003-09-09 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Use of high-K dielectric material for ONO and tunnel oxide to improve floating gate flash memory coupling
EP1411555A2 (fr) * 2002-10-14 2004-04-21 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Mémoire non-volatile de type silicium/oxyde/nitrure/silicium/nitrure/oxyde/silicium
EP1487013A2 (fr) * 2003-06-10 2004-12-15 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Cellule mémoire de type SONOS et son procédé de fabrication

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EP1605517B1 (fr) 2001-04-27 2011-09-14 Imec Barrière isolante

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US6617639B1 (en) * 2002-06-21 2003-09-09 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Use of high-K dielectric material for ONO and tunnel oxide to improve floating gate flash memory coupling
EP1411555A2 (fr) * 2002-10-14 2004-04-21 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Mémoire non-volatile de type silicium/oxyde/nitrure/silicium/nitrure/oxyde/silicium
EP1487013A2 (fr) * 2003-06-10 2004-12-15 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Cellule mémoire de type SONOS et son procédé de fabrication

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